Dr M to warn of perils ahead at his final party conference
Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who came to power 22 years ago when Ronald Reagan was a rookie president of the United States, is expected to cut through the praise-singing at his final party conference this week with a stark warning about the future.
The man who has been credited with guiding Malaysia from the economic backwaters into the mainstream of Asian development has never minced his words and is unlikely to do so as he prepares to hand over power to his chosen successor, Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
He will warn in his opening address Thursday of the need for unity among the majority Malay population in the face of a growing threat to his ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) from an Islamic fundamentalist opposition party, insiders say.
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